Top 5 Best Canon Macro Lens

Macro photography is intensely close-up photography most commonly invoked by nature photographers. Good macro lenses can double as portrait lenses because of their fast aperture, resulting in stunning shallow depth of field. While macro photography used to perform much better on full-frame cameras, crop sensor macro lenses have vastly improved in recent years. Here are our top choices for macro lenses compatible with Canon cameras.

Canon 60mm EF–S f/2.8 USM

This macro lens is a great introductory lens if you’re just foraying into macro photography. It’s only compatible with a crop-sensor camera, but with an aperture of 2.8 it’s a good portrait lens as well.

Tamron 60mm f/2.0 DI II

Another lens capable of true 1:1 magnification, this Tamron macro was the first lens manufactured for crop-sensor bodies with an aperture fast enough to capture truly shallow depth of field portrait images.